Taktun, a key point connecting the mountains of Bithynia, Pontus, and Anatolia, was originally the base of Mithridates VI's expedition to the west twenty years ago, and was later captured by the Roman general Lucuras, and now it is a strong fortress guarded by the army of the Kingdom of Eubertnia.

The 5,000 small army of the Kingdom of Eubertya, recruited by Adiana before the war with all the gold and silver of the royal treasury, a mixed army of Cappadocians, Galatians, and pirates placed by Pompey before, stubbornly held Taktun against the Brutus Legion, and the Bronze Shield Legion reorganized by Minander, which together amounted to no less than 15,000 men.

In the room of the city's central tower, Her Royal Highness herself holds a sharp sword, sits upright on a small ivory carved circle chair, with floppy maroon hair curls, brown lynx hair, and a gold box pendant hanging from her white slender neck, and a large group of confidential slaves, maids, and guard warriors around him, who are constantly busy, counting all kinds of numbers and battles:

"Letters for help to Gerashia and Armenia have been sent, and three thousand archers and cavalry should soon be sent here to reinforce us."

"The instrument for the exchange of salt for money has been signed, stamped with the queen's seal, and sent to the Jewish Chamber of Commerce at once."

"General Dehemoth, the Roman governor of Syria, has declared neutrality for the third time, and our backyard should not be disturbed by them."

"The soldiers' salaries can be extended for another six months, and our treasury still has so much savings that there will be no shortage of them."

"Today, the enemy army wants to make a detour back to the side of Taktun City. Cut off our two paths. But it was blocked by the trenches and fortresses dug by our military first. We won the victory and killed 200 enemy cavalry. ”

When Adiana heard this, a smile of satisfaction appeared on her lips, and then the personal slave girl was very excited, holding the scroll of letters, bowed down at her feet, and said, "Here comes the letter from the Roman cavalry commander. ”

"Cavalry commander? He has actually become the dictator's deputy! Adiana was even more proud, took the letter and looked at it. Then, unable to contain his excitement, he walked to the ballista stand on the periphery of the tower, which overlooked the entire fortress and the enemy's siege positions.

Originally, when Adine marched into Silesia and expelled Cicero, she suddenly turned back and captured the city of Taktun, because she had long expected that the decisive enemy would come from the north, especially the Minanders who hated her to the bone, so within three months of the time difference. She presided over the extensive renovation and reinforcement of the fortress in Taktun, first around the old city. After the construction of a new wall with a circumference of fifty stadias, which happened to be on a high ground facing the enemy, with a steep slope of a deep stream and a dense pile of stakes and javelin heads, Adiana built a large core granary and arsenal with a separate wall, enough for five thousand men to eat and fight for two years. On the walled tower, she had already hired Philo, a Greek mathematician and engineer from Samos, to design the tower to be protruding and jagged, and the projectile ballista on it had been accurately calculated to shoot anywhere below. On both sides of the castle, where it is connected to the canyon, Adiana has built a fence wall to guard Taktun like two arms, and there are independent camps in the back, each with its own roads and streets, and Taktun is connected to the hinterland of the kingdom in the rear, which can effectively prevent the enemy's light infantry and cavalry from attacking in a roundabout way, and today Brutus sent a detachment of Ala cavalry to prepare to do this kind of thing, but in front of the trench and the wooden fence, he was killed by Adena's projectionmen and lost his armor - Although the figures reported to the queen by his subordinates were exaggerated, Brutus still lost at least thirty to fifty cavalry.

In front of the sharp stakes of the trench, there were many bloody corpses of men and horses, and some Eubernian soldiers were cleaning up there, this scene was imprinted in Adina's eyes, and she felt even more bold, "Hold on until the army of Calabis comes, and I will annihilate the bronze shield army of Minander, a cheap slave, in one go, and now it seems that there is no problem at all." ”

After thinking about it, Adiana, who was smiling, called the maid and said, "How many people are coming with you this time in the team of female slaves in the court?" The maid replied that there were about fifty of them, all trained in dance and opera, and Adiana sighed, and then said that the fifty slave girls should be put on make-up at night, and sent to the tents of the meritorious soldiers, with a reward of one hundred drachmas each. Adiana then sent a provocative letter to the besieging Menander camp:

"You and that slut Stratonis, through guò despicable means, have called your two filthy illegitimate sons in vain the children of my father, bribed the villains around Pompey, and stolen the fertile and vast land of the Bosphorus, and now you are not satisfied, do not know how to fear the gods, and have delusions of non-division, taking advantage of the civil war of the Romans to land in the old kingdom of Pontus, and by virtue of your humble origins, do you still want to usurp the throne of the king of Pontus? Now, after a month and a half of siege, the combined army of you and the Roman rebels cannot surpass the city of Taktun at all, which is not enough to illustrate the contrast between strength and wisdom, is Zeus on my side anyway, because I am a descendant of the authentic royal family of Mithra, and my child is also the authentic grandson of His Majesty Eubert, and soon there will be the cavalry commander of the Roman Republic, leading the huge elite of five legions to the city, you ashes with faint sparks, Soon it will melt like the thin ice of the spring of the coming year, and now that you and your wife will be exiled from their own eyes, and your rebels will be poisoned and put to death, and the whole kingdom of the Bosphorus will be sacrificed, I may also consider giving you and you a way to survive. In addition, in the box where the letter was located, a sachet was attached.

Minander told the chamberlain to open it, and after the chamberlain carefully dismantled it, he fed one of the hounds in the tent, but the brute only licked a few mouthfuls of the powder, and then he trembled with pain, and screamed loudly, and then turned into a stiff body.

This was Adanna's naked intimidation tactic, and she was clearly proficient in the dark night tactics of her deceased father's death, but she did not poison the letters and scrolls, but only put the poison in a conspicuous sachet to demonstrate to Menander, "It is easy for me to take your life."

"It's just that he gave birth to a wild child who didn't know where to come from, and he claimed to be the grandson of Yubert, a prodigal girl who gave up the dignity of the royal family of Mithra, and was also worthy of writing a letter and shouting! Immediately I will take the castle in front of me and slaughter everyone, including her! When Menander saw this, he angrily threw the letter at his feet. (To be continued......)